As your clients’ industrial environments expand and connect with more applications and corporate IT networks, critical OT assets have greater exposure to cyber threats. In addition, many OT organizations rely on OEMs and service providers to operate and maintain converged IT/OT networks remotely. These teams often lack the visibility needed to adequately secure your clients’ environments.
It’s no surprise, then, that the 2022 Fortinet State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report found that 93 percent of organizations had more than one intrusion in the past year with 61 percent of intrusions affecting OT systems.
If your clients are facing these types of security challenges, implementing a cybersecurity mesh architecture can “fill in the gaps” found in traditional perimeter-based security solutions. A cybersecurity mesh architecture such as the Fortinet Security Fabric leverages a distributed, interconnected security framework that can adapt to the dynamic nature of OT environments. This framework integrates various security components including network, application, endpoint and cloud security. This results in your clients having better visibility and control over their entire OT environments. The Fabric is based on three key attributes:
1. Broad – Detect threats and enforce security everywhere.
The Fortinet Security Fabric powers high-performing connectivity and coordinated real-time threat detection and policy enforcement across the entire digital attack surface and lifecycle.
2. Integrated – Close security gaps and reduce complexity.
Leveraging AI-powered centralized analysis and automated prevention tools, the Fortinet Security Fabric delivers consistent security and streamlined operations across technologies, locations and deployments.
3. Automated – Enable faster prevention and efficient operations.
A context-aware, self-healing network and security posture leverages cloud-scale and advanced AI to automatically deliver near-real-time, user-to-application coordinated protection across the Fabric.
Concerned about your clients’ OT security posture? Fortinet has protected OT environments in critical infrastructure sectors such as energy, defense, manufacturing, food and transportation for more than a decade. By designing security into complex infrastructure via the Fortinet Security Fabric, organizations have an efficient, non-disruptive way to ensure that the OT environment is protected and compliant.
Download the 2022 Fortinet State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report to learn about the latest OT security challenges and how the Fortinet Security Fabric seamlessly enables security for converged IT/OT ecosystems.